Thursday, December 22, 2016

This is my second month at Burn Boot Camp and I am really enjoying my time here! It has become my daily routine - wake up in the morning, put on my workout clothes and lace up my shoes, fill up a water bottle, pack an extra outfit for work and I'm good to go. My whole day is more productive, my mind is sharper and I'm excited to be spending time focusing on my health. Burn Boot Camp's pillars of success are mindset, organic whole food nutrition, strength training, burst training, and providing a positive environment - it's just the place I want to be.
My trainers help me focus on my goals, give nutritional advice and push me to improve in strength and cardio training. There is a "weekly protocol" that changes every week and they never do the same workout twice! Classes are always interesting, challenging and fun. Every other day we alternate between different muscle groups with burst and strength training techniques. Here is an example of our weekly protocol -->

"Burn Boot Camp focuses on 2 exercise formats: strength and burst/cardio training. On strength days we are working on muscle hypertrophy meaning we are seeking maximum growth of our muscles lifting heavier weights working toward muscle fatigue and muscle failure, making those last few reps of the set nearly impossible to sustain. Burst training is HIIT (high intensity interval training) with more cardio and athletic conditioning; a full body work that builds strength, power, mobility, balance, and agility. On burst and cardio days your heart rate will spike much higher than strength days - that's one big difference. We never combine the 2 types of training so it's either cardio/HIIT day or a strength day. We never train the same body part the following day because we expect our clients will be sore! It's a good thing therefore we work on a totally different muscle group or training format. No workout is every the same and the protocol changes every week."

I asked my trainers, Jeffrey, Brittanny and fellow BBCer Shastin to help me make a short clip to demo some examples of strength and burst/cardio training that we do at the gym.
Song by: MØ - Final Song

I always follow my BBC workouts with lots of protein - usually a protein shake, lean turkey or chicken with a side of veggies will do, but somedays I've got mad cravings for chocolate! Here is a yummy recipe from "Beyond the Blender Bottle" by Burn Boot Camp that uses After Burn protein powder - everything you need to fuel your potential.